The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #23 October 2014 | Page 13

The scientists spent nearly five
months in partnership, trying
unsuccessfully to decode the
Ancient Arrow artefacts and
establish the means to unlock
the optical disc. During this
time, the ACIO regularly
experimented with new
technologies or methods, and
they too, were unsuccessful in
unlocking the content of the
optical disc. One day, late in the
summer of 1996, one of the
scientists (a linguistics expert)
had an insight into how to
unlock the optical disc by
reducing the symbols of the
wall paintings to their closest
facsimile found in an ancient
Sumerian text. While the
Sumerian language is extinct, it
was sufficiently comprehensible
to t